Why, then thou art an executioner.

Glou. Thy son I kill’d for his presumption.

[35] K. Hen. Hadst thou been kill’d when first thou didst presume,

Thou hadst not lived to kill a son of mine.

And thus I prophesy, that many a thousand,

Which now mistrust no parcel of my fear,

And many an old man’s sigh and many a widow’s,

40 And many an orphan’s water-standing eye—

[♦] Men for their sons, wives for their husbands,

[♦] And orphans for their parents’ timeless death—